Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-11-24
THE NEWS.

Natural gas has been struck at Elizabeth
town. Ind.
Mrs. General Gordon Granger was buried
at Lexington, KY, Friday.
An erolite weighing three tons fell in the
street at Amsterdam. n. Y, last week.
Hon. Hugh ]. Jewetl continues to improve,
and his physicians feel greatly encouraged.
Over twelve thousand persons attended the
first of Mcody's revival meetings at Plttsburg,
sunday.
The yellow fever epidemic st Tampa. Fla,
is about over, the doctors and nurses return-
ing home.
John ]. Breslin, the well>known Irish Na>
tionalist, died at his residence in New York
City, Friday.
George L. Rives, of New York, has been
rendered and accepted the position of assists
ant secretary of state.
A dozen or more politicians of Indiaoapolis
have been indicted for committing fraud al
the late city election.
Saturdays storm was the most severe that
has swept the lakes for years, and 1t is feared
many lives have been lost.
At the convention of the Union Labor par
ty, of Wisconsin, a resolution expressing
sympathy for the Chicago Anarchists was al
most unanimously tabled.
A piece of gas>pipe, bearing the resem-
blapce to an Anarchist bomb, was found in
the Journal Office building at Columbus, and
caused a sensation, Friday.
HaLg Yen Ching, a young ChiDsman of
New York, has passed the usual examination,
but was refused admission TO the bar by the
supreme court. He is graduate of Colum>
bia law school.
The main building of Barnum & Bailey's
show, at Bridgeport, Ct, burned Sunday, all
the valuable horses and large number of the
animals perishng in the flames. Thirty ele
phants and lion escaped from the building.
A Henry George party has been or
ganiZed in Missouri.
Hog cholera is reported as prevailing
in nineteen counties of Illinois.
At Princeton, Gibson county. Iud. na
tural was struck at depth OF 600 feet.
The resigna tion of General Land Com
missioner Spa rks has been accepted by
the President.
John Westervelt commits suicide at
Toledo hotel by shooting himself in
the head.
f. II. c. Hill. Philadelphia stock brok-
er, fails, and declines 20 make any states
Inent of his condition.
The trial of Coughlin, the pal OF "Blin-
ky Morgan, was commenced al Raven
ma, o., Wednesday of las, week.
Bill Norris. desperate, was shot and
killed in a quarrel of his own seeking
by A. J. Bow man, Somerset, Ky.
Forest fires are doing great damage il
the vicinity of Memphis. Tenn, and il
the lowlands along the Mississippi.
There were ] Psi articles of iucorpo
ration filed in Ohio the past year. Tne
highest number III previous year was
900, in 1892.
VIM. T. Watson. an agent of the Ans
sonia Clock Company, is undergoing
trial at Chicago for rO0bing his employ
ers of about $4,000.
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, has ex-
tended call to Rev. Charles A. Berry
of Wolverhampton, England, to become e
pastor of the church.
Two men are under arrest at Chicago
for stealing S470,00O in securities, in
1879, from the office OF Jas. Young, New
York real estate broker.
Archibald Campbell, member of the
Canadian Parliment, for Kent county,
| ,f hrih
committed by his agents.
The official list shows that the next
| National House of Representative will
consist of 16S Democrats, 153 Republi>
cans and Independents.
Ofical count of Hamilton county, O.,
complete, giTes Foraker plurality of
G,7e2. while other Republican Dlu raiities
range from S,S7T to Il GIG.
The Faculty of the University of
Pennsylvania have forbidden students
from smoking in the building or on the
grounds of tne Insulation.
Mrs. S.rah G0iey, aged so, died
Ports mouth. o, last week She WIS
present AT the birth of General Grant
and Was his nurse in infancy.
Gov. Foraker has appointed Crrysos
tum Foster Prn0dte judge of Monte
county TO ill The vacancy GccasiOned by
the death OF d. w Morrison.
The Truiees OF the Illinois Soldiers
and Sailors Home 1T Quincy, announce
that the Home is filed 10 rppletiOl, and
no more applicants can be received.
The Democratic Treasurer OF Allen
county, o., refuses TO allow his books To
be examined. 1t is claimed there is rot
tenness there that ought to ne exposed.
The Kentucky Central Railway COM
pany has been mulcted in $4,000 damar
ges for the killing of Thomas Wain~
right, a firemanon the road, killed in the
discharge of his duty.
Michael Msloney, editor of the Catho~
lie Tribune. died at Kansas City, aud
Frank NJ. Higgins. managing editor of
the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, died
at Pittsburgh Saturday.
At meeting OF the Faculty of the
Ohio Medical College it was demOnstrat-
ed by experiments made daily for the
past three weeks. that the typhoid 6a
ciilus existed In the water of the Ohio.
General Superintendent Nash, Rail-
way Mail Service, in annual report.
sh YVES need of several additional DiVis
ion Superintendents, and urges Congress
tn make provision for disabled en-
plOyes.
Thos. NJ. Green. correspondent of the
Cincinnati Con mercial Gazette, was at
tackled Oh the street at Lexington. Ky,
by Louis D. Baldwin. and in the affray
which followed Baldwin was shot and
killed.
The recently appointed receiver to
take charge of Mormon property at Salt
Lake, Utah, has made demand for
large blocks of real estate and other
property, records &c, belonging to the
church.
Mason & HAMLIN PIANos.-Mason & HamlIn